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@SeaDaVie You chose a wrong comparison, a new game in an already established franchise is not necessarily a sequel, like how is Breath of the Wild a sequel to Skyward Sword when those 2 games are basically total opposites even if they come from the same franchise? Same thing with Mario Odyssey and Galaxy, it’s rare when Nintendo actually does a direct sequel like Galaxy 2 or Tears of the Kingdom.

Sequels on PS5 are different in the sense they all play VERY similar to the previous games and picks up the story right where it ended, except for Yotei which has more gameplay and story differences, but all the others are basically just more of the previous game and while still good games the novelty has worn off and there hasn’t been enough new IPs to balance out the sequels, the only one from this generation so far is Returnal (my personal favorite game from PS5).

Would it really be surprising?

Destiny is the ONLY IP that Bungie owns and it’s actually popular, Marathon will need a miracle to not flop at this point so the only logical step for them is to go back to work on their only successful franchise.

I only hope they make it accesible for newcomers, I tried several times to get into Destiny 1 and 2 and just never could.

Excellent news.

2026 is going to be a very tough year for gaming, if this situation doesn’t improve (and it doesn’t seem that way) both Sony and Nintendo will be forced to increase prices eventually plus there’ll be console scarcity again, and if this situation extends to the end of next year coupled with GTA 6 launch, assuming it won’t be delayed into 2027, could spell an even worse disaster than 2020/2021 for the gaming console market.

@Dogbreath I’m in my mid-20s and what I see from people my age or younger is that there’s little to no interest in single-player but specially story driven games, some friends have indeed grown out of playing Fortnite, Warzone, Apex, etc, but the thing is, they didn’t keep playing at all, some sold their console or never got the new generation, others still have it but only play a Fortnite run every few months and that’s it, there’s really no way to get them to buy even a $10 game, let alone at $70 on launch, maybe the only one would be GTA 6.

That’s just sad, and it legitimately worries me as the younger generation starts to take over while more and more single-player games fail to succeed because all the time (and money) is being spent on this black hole games.

@SeaDaVie In the other article it also says that it was the previous management who just didn’t care about Sony’ eroding market share in Japan, and given that it was Jim Ryan administration’s decision to close Japan studios it’s pretty obvious that even tho the decline of home console had been an ongoing trend, PlayStation outright didn’t care about their home region once Jim Ryan was made CEO.

And that’s just one aspect of Ryan’s disastrous administration, may we count how many failed live service games have been cancelled, or how much Concord lose, or how buying Bungie ended up being the worst business decision Sony has taken?

I still find it unreal how just in 3-4 years a Japanese company almost ended up exiting the Japanese market all because of Jim Ryan’s disastrous management and decisions, the damage caused by the previous management hindered the entire PS5 generation imo.

He only means it’ll keep being supported well into the PS6 lifespan, same way as we’re still getting many PS4 games 5 years after the PS5 released.

Good news, let publishers know that smaller games can be successful too, not everything has to be a AAA juggernaut that needs to recoup +$300 million in development costs.

Still a worthless device for MY particular use case, surprised how many people don’t know of the Remote Play app.

To me this signals the PS launcher being imminent as Sony just wouldn’t give a Steam license for free, and the incentive to use this launcher would be having access to your purchased library on PS4/PS5 plus trophies and maybe cross-saves.

If they stop selling games on Steam and only having them on their launcher it would be an a-hole move for PC players but I can totally see it coming, because that way they’ll be able to keep 100% of the sale (same as the PS Store), collect all the data they want and most importantly, restrict the devices that can install that launcher as a move to keep PS games off the next Xbox.

And I claim that digital downloads are 100 times worse for customer ownership and rights.

Honestly, numbers are not “monstrous” in any way, debuting in Top 3 and already falling a bit behind isn’t a big success specially considering that sales on Xbox in the monthly Top 10 doesn’t amount to millions, I’d call it a “just enough” success.

@naruball Sony too has raised prices in absolutely everything this generation and they’ve been doing great, “extremely loyal fans” can only get you sales around 13 million after 5 years such as the Wii U or PS Vita…

The SW2 is clearly a success, don’t try to downplay it because of some console war BS, many people here don’t seem to understand that given Xbox’ suicide it’s now key for BOTH Sony and Nintendo to succeed, the console market quite literally depends on it.

Quality mode on PS5 Pro is flawless now with +60 FPS

So EA, Activision, Bethesda, Xbox and Ubisoft are pretty much done…

2025 is the year where the games industry decided to f***ing die or what?

Looks fantastic in every way, but this should’ve been the very first time they revealed it and not with a CGI 4 years ago!

Day 1 for me as Returnal still is my favorite PS5 game so far, but this is Returnal 2 in everything but the name.

Saros and Wolverine 10/10
Everything in between 1/10

Just remember that the “2.5D God of War” was also supposed to be revealed at the previous SoT according to Insider Gaming…

Spoiler: It will be an State of Play, not a Showcase, calm down your expectations.

Just came in to say I simply can’t stand Borderlands (:

Another year without a showcase…

Lmao just a few years ago they were bragging that they had dozens of live service games in development but now that most have been cancelled or became the biggest flop ever for the brand the quantity is suddenly “not important”, wish they’d have taken that advice back in 2019…

Also, I really don’t like this approach of exploiting an IP to almost burn it, just look at TLOU, for a franchise with only two games it feels incredibly burned and overused, and when they don’t nail an adaptation, just like Season 2 of TLOU it plays against the IP and even devalues it.

And mind you, this push isn’t necessary, same as becoming more multi platform, Sony has repeatedly exceeded financial expectations every single quarter and have said this is the most profitable generation by far and it’s not enough, at this rate they’ll end up losing much more while seeking that extra $1.

Honestly it was more surprising that it took this long and they raised it before everywhere else but the US.

And remember, it can always get worse, it’s only been 7 months out of 48.

Back when they announced the store was going to close I decided to mod my console, the first time I did with a PS console and it was like a second life for it, I still use it somewhat often and never plan to get rid of it.

It’s pretty clear Sony is seeing that selling more software even outside their already successful platform leads to more revenue than keeping a closed platform and they clearly want more, all signals are there but denial is strong here, don’t end up as the Xbox folks who did believe it was ‘only 4 games’…

And somehow there’s still people here trying to hype the game up, I remember the same thing with Concord lmao

With touch-screen support and mouse controls this definitely goes for the Switch 2.

More like they bought most publishers that pump those games that would’ve been on the top list anyway aside from Forza Horizon 5.

Selection has been good but definitely not worth $80 a year, I prefer to own my games and buy the 3-5 games per year that I find interesting for much cheaper.

@Nalim Agreed, this post update Sammy made out of a random Resetera comment is just coping HARD with what we can see with our own eyes, but now he blames ‘fans’ for overreacting, very ridiculous.

PS6 needs to be another PS3 at launch.
Do they really expect us to spend $800 on a anti-consumer platform in which Sony sets their prices with no competition, charges $80 a year to play online, and now won’t even have exclusives anymore?

At least Microsoft seems ready to open their platform to other storefronts but Sony won’t ever do it, they refuse to sell digital games outside of the PS Store even with them being sued for it, as another comment said earlier, Sony had a clear way to keep leading the market, and with this they’re just handing the ball back to Microsoft, who still has the chance to score with their console/PC hybrid which given today’s news looks more interesting than ever.

@GAUSSCA Also Microsoft has the “excuse” of turning multiplatform because of becoming too big after buying half the industry and training their audience to not buy games.

What’s Sony’s excuse here? Even with live-service failures they still repeatedly state each quarterly report this is their most financially successful platform ever and yet it’s not enough and we get less and less first-party, and only a couple of those (temporarily) exclusive.

@Questionable_Duck Last month’s goalpost was that Sony would never publish a game on Xbox and they did, and now the goalpost seems to be games will never be released day one on other platforms, not too long ago it was that tentpole games like TLoU or Spider-Man wouldn’t be ported to PC, amazing how denial works…

Been playing Hades 2 on Steam on Mac (yeah I know) and the Dualsense just works much better than the Xbox controller which is understandably better for Windows PCs.

So now speculating on games crossing over platforms isn’t called “port begging” as you did in this article? Lmao with your blatant double standards.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/07/helldivers-2-xbox-announcement-prompts-avalanche-of-spider-man-port-begging

I honestly think these quotes will age badly, if Tsushima is anything to go by it’ll definitely have some repetitive open-world missions by design.

Great game but a bit overrated tbh

So now you're cherry picking the good rumors for PS no matter if the “source” is banned from everywhere?

Either post every rumor that comes out, or avoid posting speculation at all…

Sorry but these articles are pathetic and show the hypocrisy of the author, if this is port begging then you have done the very same thing when Microsoft started to shift into being multiplatform…

@OldGamer999 Exploration wise there’s probably nothing better, nothing beats building a flying monobike and explore half the map lol, that’s the point of my previous comment, BOTW and TOKT are so praised because they innovated the genre and even you didn’t like those games specifically I’d bet all open-world games have been better off since, and perhaps games like Elden Ring or Ghost of Tsushima/Yotei wouldn’t be as good as they are or even exist without what BOTW did back in 2017, credit where credit is due.

@lazymike It’s just a different context, BOTW released more than 8 years ago and back then every open world game had tons of markers, it really was the first game of these type where exploration felt truly rewarding and every game since has learned from this or make it even better, including Ghost of Tsushima, if you don’t like double standards why do you complain that people praised that 8 years ago but ignore that both Ghost games have clearly learned from it?

@lazymike Uhh isn’t it what they’re doing here as well? Just hiding the markers but all the checklist stuff is still there? Lmao.

Coming off from Death Stranding 2 it’s clear this game’s focus is not on graphics, I’m not sure why people get mad from others pointing it out, it looks very similar as Ghost of Tsushima Director’s Cut which is perfectly fine for me but nothing wrong in admitting there isn’t a ‘stunning’ leap here, visuals, structure, and gameplay all look very similar, and again, more Ghost is enough for me to want it as I loved the first game.

Also all the footage we’ve seen so far is from base PS5 so the Pro version is expectedly going to look better.

Honestly been thinking about replaying Part 2 for the third time after the meh Season 2, this is just a perfect excuse! One of my main criticisms from the game (and show) is the pacing, always wondered how it’d be playing both perspectives at the same time.

@Lowdefal Problem is Sammy behaves exactly like the people you describe, just look at the wording of the title compared to the actual poll result, people ain’t “divided”, only 1 of 4 hardcore fans who visit this website actually cares about that.

10/10 and my personal GOTY until now, 80 hours clocked and still plenty to do!